Media, Film & Communication: Images

Find Images with Library Databases

A digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with software tools to view, present, and manage images.A tutorial for this database is available here.

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Pictures and photographs from the university's collections. Explore images of pictures and photographs from the Hocken Pictorial Collections and Special Collections. Digital Collections is a window into a selection of the cultural, heritage and historical material within Hocken Collections and the library's Special Collections. Content includes paintings and sketches by prominent New Zealand artists, historical photos and films of the University, and material that has been shown in exhibitions.

Database of over 20,000 heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, at the National Library of New Zealand. Access images and information about them, including items of cultural value to Māori people and other New Zealanders.

Over 25,000 cartoons (originals and copies), from the 1860s to the present. The great majority are by New Zealand cartoonists. They cover politics, social issues, economics, sport, culture, history, international issues, etc.

Pictures and photographs from the university's collections. Explore images of pictures and photographs from the Hocken Pictorial Collections and Special Collections. Digital Collections is a window into a selection of the cultural, heritage and historical material within Hocken Collections and the library's Special Collections. Content includes paintings and sketches by prominent New Zealand artists, historical photos and films of the University, and material that has been shown in exhibitions.

Search a small selection of Te Papa's 800,000 rare and beautiful New Zealand images. This database has images of a wide range of objects including Māori carvings, art, ceramics, furniture, photographs, native animals, and weaving – many of which are not on display in the Museum.